Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld … More
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Review: Protecting industrial food profits by re-shaping science
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona … More
Big Food’s Corporate Science Takes Firm Hold in China
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. … More
Review: Invitation to a Banquet
Fuchsia Dunlop. 2023. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food New York:: Norton, ISBN: 978-0-393-86713-8 466 pp. Richard … More
Review: Have You Eaten Yet?
Cheuk Kwan. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World. Pegasus Books. New York and London. 2023. … More
Review: Beyond Global Food Supply Chains
Victoria Stead and Melinda Hinkston, eds. Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration. Palgrave. MacMillan. Open Access. (2022) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0 … More
Thesis Review: Tasting Tea, Tasting China
Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms and the Everyday Culture in Dalian. Yingkun Hou. Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, … More
Review: The Other Milk
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China. University of Washington Press. Seattle, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-295-74403-2. 276 pp. … More
Review: Re-Orienting Cuisine
Kwang Ok Kim , ed. Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Berghahn. New York, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78920-067-6 … More
Review: Puer Tea
Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic. Jinghong Zhang. University of Washington Press. 2014 Yingkun Hou (Southern Illinois University) Many … More